Design and evaluation of a personal digital assistant-based research platform for cochlear implants

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3060-3073

  Ali, Hussnain ^a   Lobo, Arthur P ^b,c   Loizou, Philipos C ^a   Hansen, John ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b Signals and Sensors Research Inc   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant (CI); electrical stimulation; speech processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; NOISY CONDITIONS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS (PDA); PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RESEARCH PLATFORMS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DESIGN; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

RESEARCH;

AMPLIFIER; ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CODING ALGORITHM; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; DEVICE APPROVAL; DEVICE SAFETY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROPHONE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; POWER SUPPLY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCIENTIST; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DEAFNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886683140     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2262712     Document Type: Article

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